Isis

I'sis

Sister-wife of Osiris. The cow was sacred to her; and she is
represented with two long horns from one stem at the top of her head.
She is said to have invented spinning and weaving. (Egyptian mythology.)

Inventress of the woof, fair Lina [flax] flings
The flying shuttle thro' the dancing strings.
Taught by her labours, from the fertile soil
Immortal Isis clothed the banks of Nile.

Diodoros confounds her with the Moon, Demeter, and Juno. Plutarch
confounds her with Athena (Minerva), Perseph one (Proserpine), the
Moon, and Tethys. Apuleius calls her the mother of the gods Minerva,
Venus, Diana, Proserpine, Ceres, Juno, Bellona, Hecate, and Rhamnusia
[Nemesis].

Lockyer says, “Isis represents the idea of rising or becoming
visible. Osiris of disappearing.” Thus the rising moon, a rising
planet, the coming dawn, etc., is Isis; but the setting sun, the waning
moon, a setting planet, evening, etc., is Osiris.

“Now the bright moonbeams kissed the water, ... and now the mountain
and valley, river and plain, were flooded with white light, for mother
Isis was arisen.” —RiderHaggard: Cleopatra, chap. iii.

Isis was the mother of Horus (the rising sun), and is represented as
nursing him.

Isis.

Some maintain that Isis was at one time the protectress of Paris,
and that the word Paris is a contraction of the Greek Para Isidos
(near the temple of Isis), the temple referred to being the Panthén or
church of St. Genevièe. We are told, moreover, that a statue of Isis
was for a long time preserved in the church of St. Germain des Pré, but
was broken to pieces by Cardinal Briconnet because he saw certain women
offering candles to it as to the Virgin.